[nettime-lat] Ligar as favelas do Rio ao mundo atraves da Internet

[Ana Viseu <ana.viseu@utoronto.ca>]

[A wired parece estar a dedicar grande parte das suas noticias ao Brasil. 
Este artigo descreve uma interessante iniciativa de ligar as favelas do Rio 
de Janeiro ao mundo atraves da Internet. Alguem da lista faz parte deste 
projecto ou sabe mais acerca dele? Cumprimentos. Ana]

http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,41105,00.html?tw=wn20010110

Reuters


Rio's Slums Getting Connected


RIO DE JANEIRO -- Many of the hillside slums can't be reached by road, but 
starting this week Brazilians and foreigners alike can get to the 
"favelas," as shantytowns are called here, on the electronic highway.

A group of volunteers launched Favela News Agency in a bid to "open the 
doors to Rio's favelas," the slums that often only have footpaths 
connecting them to the city, the site's director Andre Fernandes said 
Wednesday.


"We want to show the entire world what's happening in the favelas," 
Fernandes said.

"It's a channel to praise social projects or denounce violence, but it's 
also a place just to talk about what's going on in the hundreds of 
neighborhoods that people are afraid to visit," he said.

One fifth of Rio's 5.6 million residents live in the precarious homes that 
cling to steep cliffs overlooking trendy Copacabana and Ipanema beaches, 
and in the poverty-stricken slums in the northern half of the city.

The favelas serve as headquarters for Rio's powerful drug cartels and are 
often the site of shootouts between rival gangs and police.

The site will give the city's marginalized a new voice and provide 
cybersurfers a peek at life in Rio's shantytowns, meeting growing demand 
from students and foreigners for details about Rio's famous "favelas."

Fernandes hopes that outsiders will venture into the forbidden 
neighborhoods for traditional pre-Carnival parade rehearsals and local 
dances and perhaps go beyond the "favela tours" that give tourists a 
superficial view of Brazil's biggest slum from the back of a jeep.

In its first week, the site offers a few news stories about stalled 
projects in Dona Marta, evangelical efforts in a Copacabana slum, columns 
by nonprofit groups that work in the region and a list of events and job 
postings. But organizers hope to beef it up with more on-site news in 
coming months.

The news agency is offering beginners' journalism courses to residents in 
dozens of shantytowns and the nonprofit organization Committee for 
Democratization of Information Technology Americas, which has backing from 
the Inter-American Development Bank and Microsoft (MSFT) is donating used 
computers and training people to use them.

"It's another step toward integrating the shantytowns into normal Rio 
life," he said.


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